Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Vodafone and Nokia working on LTE connectivity for future Moon missions

Space exploration is a tricky business, especially when it comes to maintaining a strong signal to planet Earth. NASA maintains an array of communication facilities worldwide just to download data from deep-space probes. Future interplanetary missions involving multiple landers and rovers need a way to all talk to each other that doesn't involve radio, and that's where Vodafone and Nokia come in.

Back in March 2017, a group of volunteer scientists and engineers in Germany (known as PTScientists) announced it was planning the world's first private Moon landing, using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

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